The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1887-07-21
sonville News-HeFald.l
IN Deh alf Of Harmony.

In Sundays Nescs- Herald We reproduced from
the Tallahassee FLORIDIAN q very able protest
against certain conclusions of the fernando Nescs
on the subject of Governor Perry's recent ap
pointmeniA We have little doubt that in it's
cooler judgment the Nescs will itself admit that
90 far as fernando county is concerned, no Gov
ernor could have made appointments more just
to the Democracy or freer from personal bias
The Nescs admits that the new county officers
are all competent men," In this respect Cover
nor Perry demanded and applied the Jefferson
ian test of honesty, fidelity and capacity. More
over, finding two factions of the Democratic par
~ in fernando, instead Of taking sides with
either and thus widening the breach, like loyal
Democrat, like the Governor of great State, he
divided the Offices between the TWO factions
taking care, meanwhile, that the appointees
were capable. In heavens name what more
could the Netos ask? II the Governor had Sc
lected them all from one faction TO the exclusion
of the other, the party thus ignored might have
had reason 10 complain; but under existing cir
cumstances the Governor did all that any un-
biased Democrat could ask He did what must
meet the approval of every Democrat in the
United States, if he will only look at the matter
from An unprejudiced standpoint; indeed
fail to see how even the btierest prejudice could
find fault with an adjudication like that.
1t seems to the Neps-H Herald that there are
more unwarranted and absolutely unjust6abe
democratic factions in Florida than anywhere
else throughout the South this, though all the
conditions are most favorable 10 complete unfit
cation. How soon party fOrgets the old recon-
struction period-the so-called carpet-bag
era, when surrounding evils united democracy in
common cause: Men forget so soon the ,rib-
ulations through which they have passed,
shoulder to shoulder, in solid ranks. Inconsist
ent as 1t was,
When the devil got sick, tn devil Q saint would be,
When the devil got well. devil Of a saint he.
We should remember that in union there is
strength and safety. If We tolerate these mar
row, personal prejudices and neighborhood
fights and factions in time Of victorious peace,
war shall find US again ill-prepared to meet its
ravages. Men may differ ever 80 little at the
point of divergence but as the lines of separation
grow in length they soOn come to be miles apart
Cesar had party, Brutus had party, but Rome
had no friends or following. Shall il ever be
said of democrats-of men with boards on their
faces and brains IN their heads-that Perry has
party, and Bloxham has q party, but democ-
racy has meme? As far as the Neus herald is
concerned, it will stand for the united democ
racy of the State first, last and all the time,
protesting. against every attempt to array
one faction against another. Wherever
the democratic banner may float, what
ever hands may uphold it, there the Neaos
Herald will follow. As was said by loyal and
chivalric Britton Though l find the crown
suspended from bush by the ways,de, shall
stand there defending il till fall in my tracks"
No chief Executive could have shown more
legal devotion to the best interests of the State,
and Of his party as well, than Governor Perry
exhibited in the fernando appointments and
an impartial judgment will pronounce him en-
titled TO the grateful praise not of the party only,
but of the entire people, for his manly dctermi-
nation TO allay feud which threatens the peace
and well-being of fernando. and at the same
time appointing fit and proper men to admin
lister the affairs of the county" He gave his
alleged personal enemies exactly the same con-
sderation he gave his friends or, in other
words, he cast aside every personal considera-
ton whatever, sacrificing his prejudices for the
good of his party and of the people of fernando
county, and indirectly Of Florida, on the altar of
patriotism and for the welfare of the entire
State. Who, among men or gods could have
done more2 We feel assured from wha, we
know of the Nesos that it will revise and amend
its harsh and unjust conclusions.